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Spies In Committee And A Maiden Speech
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 10:38 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Government intends progressing legislation relating to the intelligence security services when Parliament resumes today, though it is expected to face a filibuster from those who oppose it. More >>
Prime Minister on Fonterra | David Henry Inquiry | GCSB
Monday, 5 August 2013, 6:42 pm | Hamish Cardwell
At his weekly post cabinet press conference Prime Minister John Key answered questions about the Fonterra botulism contamination scare as well as the release of Peter Dunne and Fairfax journalist Andrea Vance's emails during the Henry inquiry into the leak ... More >>
Public Address 5 August 2013 - This government & journalists
Monday, 5 August 2013, 1:26 pm | Public Address
It’s not quite two years since the Prime Minister responded to one of the inevitable perils of public leadership – a live-microphone accident – by making a complaint under the Crimes Act, thus triggering an investigation that saw the country’s major ... More >>
Denniston's "Caviar" Of Coal? - The Westport Story, part 3
Monday, 5 August 2013, 1:02 pm | The Westport Story told by Scoop
Metallurgical coke, made from bituminous coals such as the West Coast’s, are desirable in the blast furnace conversion of iron ore to iron. They are sometimes referred to as the caviar of coals for their special steel enhancing properties. More >>
Contaminated Fonterra Milk Products: MPI Press Conference
Monday, 5 August 2013, 12:57 pm | Hamish Cardwell
The Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) expect to make a more detailed announcement later today about how Fonterra milk products became contaminated with with a bacterium which can cause botulism. More >>
What's It Like to Go to Jail for Justice? One Person's Story
Monday, 5 August 2013, 11:39 am | War Is A Crime
At age 69, I recently found spending thirteen hours in a Washington, DC, jail one of the most invigorating experiences I've ever had, and it seems to have already helped to make the world a better place! More >>
Refugee Imperialism: Kevin Rudd and Dumping on the Pacific
Monday, 5 August 2013, 11:25 am | Binoy Kampmark
The pro-refugee groups are milling about along Swanston Street, Melbourne, the arterial route of the city centre in what apparently qualifies as Australia’s “cultural” capital. The actions of protest took place over the weekend to respond to the first ... More >>
US Decided Leadership Of The Arab World Goes To Saudi Arabia
Monday, 5 August 2013, 11:08 am | Zayd Alisa
The Egyptian army issued a stern ultimatum on July 1, 2013, which was ostensibly a stark warning to both, Morsi, the first democratically elected president of Eygpt – who represents the Muslim Brotherhood MB – and on the other side the Tamarod ... More >>
Public Address 2 August 2013 - Beatles, and The Food Show
Monday, 5 August 2013, 10:58 am | Public Address
I've always liked a good cover version. The reinterpretation of a song can expand its meaning, or just be fun. Matthew Bannister's Evolver, a confident retelling of the whole of The Beatles' best album, Revolver, does both. More >>
Army Teaches Wrong Lesson in Nation's High Schools
Monday, 5 August 2013, 10:53 am | War Is A Crime
This summer the world will pause to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans are still supportive of Truman's decision despite overwhelming historical evidence the bomb had "nothing ... More >>
Convicting Manning:Implications for WikiLeaks/Whistleblowers
Monday, 5 August 2013, 10:40 am | Binoy Kampmark
The state has not disappointed. The U.S. military legal system has done badly, and it is scant comfort that it might have done something even worse. It was hard to expect that Army Colonel Denise Lind could do anything else. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Fonterra milk powder scandal
Monday, 5 August 2013, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
The Fonterra tainted milk powder scandal is at risk of becoming the export equivalent of foot and mouth disease, and needs expert management now to staunch the damage. More >>
Something Is Fundamentally Wrong
Saturday, 3 August 2013, 2:28 pm | William Spriggs
President Obama continues his visits to different parts of America to discuss the economy. This is his attempt to use the Bully Pulpit of the Presidency to direct a national dialogue. The President said, "There are no simple tricks to grow ... More >>
A Formula for Palestinian Survival in Damascus
Saturday, 3 August 2013, 2:16 pm | Franklin Lamb
For more than a year, Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, one of nine in Syria, has been a war zone between supporters of the Syrian government and those seeking its overthrow. But the number of camp residents actively engaged in fighting on either ... More >>
Snowden Escapes: Russian Asylum and the issue with XKeyscore
Saturday, 3 August 2013, 1:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Not so fast, but very furious – U.S. officials have been checked by the latest move on the part of the Russian government to grant Edward Snowden a year’s asylum. This is not so much cat and mouse as better feline against tricked feline, a combination ... More >>
Israel-Palestine: Show the Leaders the Road to Peace
Friday, 2 August 2013, 5:45 pm | Alon Ben-Meir
If there was even a small chance of success in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, they would have to be based on three fundamental tenets. First, they must come to an agreement on the critical issue of borders, delink it from other difficult conflicting ... More >>
Do We Want School or Education?
Friday, 2 August 2013, 4:23 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
As our world continues to unravel in response to the impact of our uneconomic activities on ecological systems, it is obviously worth asking searching questions about the nature of modern society. More >>
Hated in Egypt: How the Palestinian Bogeyman Resurfaced
Friday, 2 August 2013, 4:19 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When I left Gaza for the first time on my own, twenty some years ago, I was warned of a notorious officer who headed Egypt’s State Security Intelligence at the Rafah border. He “hates Palestinians,” I was told. More >>
Confessions of a climate change denier
Friday, 2 August 2013, 3:57 pm | Waging NonViolence
I suppose it wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, N.J., in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense. And it wasn’t until I was out organizing on New York City’s outer beaches after Hurricane Sandy ... More >>
VIP Fly My Pretties Homeland Tour "Muppet Box" Competition
Friday, 2 August 2013, 3:56 pm | LOOP Recordings Aotearoa
Scoop is proud to be supporting Fly My Pretties and The Homeland Tour and we have an amazing VIP Prize-pack to giveaway: 4x VIP tickets to the show at the Wellington Opera House - seats are in the private balcony box “Muppet Box” – the best ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: John Key drone
Friday, 2 August 2013, 1:51 pm | Martin Doyle
John Key's use of "al Qaeda" as a caution is itself a form of terror, used in turn to justify terrible new surveillance on the NZ population. More >>
Scoop Coverage: Resignation Over Vance Phone Records
Friday, 2 August 2013, 1:37 pm | Scoop Full Coverage
The head of the Parliamentary Service, Geoff Thorn, has resigned following a growing controversy over the release of a DomPost journalist’s phone records to a ministerial inquiry into the leak of a spy agency report. More >>
NaMo: Only a Corner of India
Friday, 2 August 2013, 1:22 pm | Sazzad Hussain
For his admirers and Facebook followers he is the most efficient political leader that can steer the troubled state of India. He is the role model for economic growth and infrastructure development. For the business houses and the corporate world he ... More >>
Solari: Breakaway Civilization pt. 2 with Dr. Joseph Farrell
Friday, 2 August 2013, 12:35 pm | Catherine Austin Fitts
Are you concerned that the world is not making sense? Have no fear, things are about to snap into focus! One of the most fascinating Solari Reports interviews in our library is Dr. Joseph Farrell's interview on the Breakaway Civilization last fall. More >>
Sea World and Guantanamo Bay: Captivity, Torture, Slow Death
Friday, 2 August 2013, 12:06 pm | John Stanton
The documentary Black Fish reminds one that “intelligence” and the human species do not necessarily equate. And it shows just how humanity's bloodthirsty ignorance knows no bounds even in its dealings with a peaceful, incredibly intelligent and ... More >>
Unveiling Female Muslim Teachers So Students See Their Lips
Friday, 2 August 2013, 11:15 am | Richard S. Ehrlich
The Philippines, Asia's only Catholic-majority country, has ordered Muslim women to remove their facial veils when teaching the government's experimental curriculum of Arabic language and Islamic values, because students benefit by "seeing the teacher's ... More >>
EU vs. Hezbollah: is the EU experiencing ‘buyer’s remorse’?
Friday, 2 August 2013, 11:05 am | Franklin Lamb
It may well have seemed like a fine idea at the European Union’s Foreign Ministers cocktail reception in Brussels, where ample alcohol freely flowed the night before last week’s vote to blacklist the “military wing” of Hezbollah. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Nyet more Vodka
Friday, 2 August 2013, 11:00 am | Martin Doyle
Re the boycott of Russian vodka by bars in many countries where people oppose the Russian government's crackdown on gay rights. More >>
GCSB Bill Completes Second Reading
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 5:18 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill completed its second reading by 61 to 59 with National, ACT and Peter Dunne in favour. More >>
The Pain Of "Uncertainty" - The Westport Story, part 2
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 4:09 pm | The Westport Story told by Scoop
“There’s so much uncertainty out there for our town at the moment. This is why people are starting to speak up”. This sentiment – expressed by a letter writer to Westport newspaper The News on 19 June – was heard often during Scoop Amplifier’s ... More >>
Newsflash - Parliamentary Services Boss Resigns
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 3:57 pm | Hamish Cardwell
According to Stuff.co.nz Geoff Thorn, the General Manager of Parliamentary Service, has tendered his resignation due to blunders around the release of phone and swipe card access records. More >>
GCSB To Be Progressed Next Week
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 2:11 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
When Parliament sits next week the Government will seek to pass legislation relating to the intelligence security agency. More >>
Adopting @PeterDunneMP - A Developing TwitStory | 500 Words
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 1:02 pm | Alastair Thompson
Adopting Peter Dunne MP ( @PeterDunneMP )- A Developing TwitStory | 500 Words Featuring the #Nethui 2013 GCSB Session Videos & http://www.adoptanmp.co.nz/ More >>
GCSB Bill To Be Debated
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 12:34 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
After Question Time today MPs are scheduled to debate legislation covering the activities of New Zealand’s intelligence community. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Vance phone scandal
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 9:58 am | Gordon Campbell
Pity the poor Prime Minister. The phone records of Fairfax reporter Andrea Vance? Don’t look at him. Once again, John Key has been let down by his minions, or by the people who were misled or intimidated into compliance by his staff’s overtures, ... More >>
RMA Reform Debated - House Sits At 9am Thursday
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 9:59 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Parliament rose just before 10pm interrupting the committee stage debate of the Resource Management Reform Bill . More >>
Housing Bill Reported Back
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 2:04 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
A bill intended to increase the supply of housing was reported back from select committee when Parliament resumed at 2pm. More >>
At the Crossroads in Coaltown - The Westport Story part 1
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 12:04 pm | The Westport Story told by Scoop
One way or another it’s a fact that the past, present and future of Westport and the Buller District is inextricably linked to the ground-covered seams and coal-fields on the lofty cloud-draped plateaus directly outside the township’s front door. More >>
Estimates Debate Continues And Extended Hours On Thursday
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 10:46 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Parliament will sit on Thursday morning under extended hours provisions to progress a number of Treaty settlement bills. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Manning conviction | Dotcom’s latest round
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
So, in a US kangaroo court, the sole presiding judge has found Bradley Manning guilty of espionage, theft and fraud under the US Espionage Act of 1917. So much for the whistle blower defence, and for Manning’s claim that his actions were intended ... More >>
The Privileges Of Parliament & Peter Dunne | 500 Words
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 9:55 am | Alastair Thompson
It is hard not to conclude - in the wake of more than a year of half answers, miss-truths and outright lies around key aspects of the GCSB debacle - that we are now dealing with a rogue Government. More >>
Crunching Through Estimates
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 9:59 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Parliament adjourned at 10pm after MPs crunched their way through the Estimates Debate after Question Time. More >>
Rolling Coverage – Reaction to the Release of Journalist's Phone Records
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 2:34 pm | Hamish Cardwell
Parliament Speaker David Carter has admitted a journalist's phone records were handed over in a ministerial enquiry after earlier denying this had happened.Scoop brings you reaction from politicans, journalists and experts throughout the day. More >>
New MP Sworn In
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 2:21 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Meka Whaitiri enters Parliament after winning the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti by-election following the death of Parekura Horomia More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Subversive journo shot
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 2:16 pm | Martin Doyle
An odd time we live in when it needs to be stated that journalists are not the enemy of the NZ military. Who is the "subversive" party in all this? More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Press gang
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 2:09 pm | Martin Doyle
Has the New Zealand Defence Force has forgotten the values they should be protecting? More >>
Estimates To Be Debated
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 10:35 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
When Parliament resumes at 2pm after a two week adjournment MPs are set to hold the Estimates debate after Question Time. More >>
Awaiting Judgment: The Manning Trial Rests
Monday, 29 July 2013, 3:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The farce is done, and one might say that the farce has ended – at least for now. An interregnum of unclear and sinister stupidity has descended in Fort Meade, Maryland. Certainly, Rabelais would express considerable disgust at the folly that has been ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Defence Force’s paranoia about journalism
Monday, 29 July 2013, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
If the thousands of people who marched on the weekend against the GCSB Bill wanted further justification for their concerns, the Defence Force has just provided it with bells on. More >>
Congress have changed the definition of Poor
Saturday, 27 July 2013, 1:57 pm | Rao Narbir Singh
Rao Narbir Singh BJP Vice President, Haryana Chandigarh 24th July 2013 : Commenting on the planning commission’s repot which says in last year’s 15 % people have been upgraded to above poverty line is a biggest joke of the year Rao Narbir Singh ... More >>
A Case for Strong Institutions
Saturday, 27 July 2013, 1:48 pm | Dakuku Peterside
All men of goodwill who look forward to a more progressive and equitable world appreciate the tremendous good Transparency International, TI does with its periodic verdict on nations and institutions across the globe. Sometimes I just wonder what our world ... More >>
Getting on Track
Saturday, 27 July 2013, 1:43 pm | William Spriggs
President Obama has kicked off a series of talks to America's working families on the economy. He started in Galesburg, Ill., where he succinctly described a solution to our economic troubles: making the middle class the engine of American prosperity. More >>
Indonesia’s Manoeuvres in West Papuan Struggle and the MSG
Friday, 26 July 2013, 5:44 pm | Selpius Bobii - Front Pepera Papua Barat
The political manoeuvres of the Republic of Indonesia in facing up to the Struggle of Papua for freedom, have intensified continuously since the III National Papuan Congress (NPC III) in Jayapura on 17-19 October 2011. More >>
Making the Bastards Honest: Launching the WikiLeaks Party
Friday, 26 July 2013, 5:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The opening crackled and sparkled in the old reading room of the Fitzroy Library in Melbourne, with Julian Assange beaming in via Skype at a time he has become use to – 3 in the morning. In a space where work and insomnia are firm friends, grabbing ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Easy Meat
Friday, 26 July 2013, 5:00 pm | Martin Doyle
Wellington parking wardens are like jackals feeding on helpless prey. More >>
A Look At The Nepata Inquiry
Friday, 26 July 2013, 1:55 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Parliament was adjourned this week, but the Maori Affairs Committee reported back an historic compensation claim by George and Damien Nepata against the New Zealand Defence Force. More >>
Israel-Palestine: Enough Talking About Talks
Friday, 26 July 2013, 1:00 pm | Alon Ben-Meir
Secretary of State John Kerry is to be highly commended for his tireless efforts to persuade the Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace negotiations soon in Washington. Although the prospect of success of these negotiations is very slim, if there is ... More >>
The No-News Media Cover a Royal Birth
Friday, 26 July 2013, 12:51 pm | Walter Brasch
Long after the American colonials broke away from the British monarchy, long after George Washington refused to take the title of “king,” Americans are still fascinated by anything British and royal. More >>
This Saturday – Here Comes Permafacture!
Friday, 26 July 2013, 12:42 pm | Catherine Austin Fitts
Ready to start building the blueprints for the open source tools that can create a more diversified, healthier civilization? Are you ready to build your very own tractor? Hey, why not! More >>
Gordon Campbell on why Miyazaki is fighting Japan’s new PM
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Everyone likes the new-ish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right? Why, his so called “Abe-nomics” promises to deliver Japan from two decades of economic malaise, by embracing the supply side prescriptions endorsed by right thinking folks within ... More >>
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